There are a lot of things that contributed to the win of President-elect Donald Trump.
But one thing that helped was the ability to have freer discussion on X in 2024 than there was on Twitter in 2020 because Elon Musk bought the platform. He wanted to help preserve free speech for what has become the social media “town square” for news and discussion.
Then, in the past couple of weeks came the news that MSNBC took a dive in ratings after the election and that Comcast was going to spin it and other networks off into a separate entity called “SpinCo.” That, in turn, raised speculation about the sale and laying off people at MSNBC. Rachel Maddow did reportedly get her salary cut by $5 million. Meanwhile, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski went to speak to President-elect Donald Trump, and that seems to have led to many in their radical leftist audience…
